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“Bill Frisell’s Harmony is Dang Beautiful – And Dang Approachable”

Harmony is Bill Frisell’s relatively new exploration of the Great American Songbook, with longtime collaborator Petra Haden singing as he plays guitar alongside a cellist and second guitarist. “This reverent junction of American folksong, jazz, and new music polyphony truly did feel like a form of sacred music,” one critic wrote in a No Depression review of a 2017 performance in North Carolina. Read the entire review for a sense of what to expect during one of Bill’s three sets at Big Ears 2019.

 

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